Materials and Techniques: hog gut stretched over cane bound with oiled linen thread, painted with indigo and soy milk, book inserts in hulls created with foam core and hand made and dyed paper; books are Coptic bound using a variety of papers including indigo painted and walnut gall ink on tea bag paper, social studies books from 1950s, map of the pacific 1960, Gideon’s Bible, and pacific Flax.

Detail: Nautical chart of Cook’s Passage

Statement: Each boat hull represents the viewpoint of a different voyager across the same piece of geography – the missionaries, the European explorers, the Polynesians navigators, the modern navy and the arm chair traveler.